DEPUTIES UNCOVERED THE PLOT. GREG: UMATILLA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ALYSSA HATCHER IS FACING A CHARGE OF CRIMINAL SOLICITATION TO COMMIT MURDER. THE LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE TARGETS WERE HER PARENTS. >> ACCORDING TO THE INVESTIGATOR, THE PARENTS ARE WILLING TO PROSECUTE. SO LIKE I SAID BEFORE, I’M A PARENT AS WELL. YOU KNOW, I COULDN’T IMAGINE THAT STUFF HAPPENING TO ME. GREG: THE INVESTIGATION BEGAN WHEN HATCHER’S PARENTS NOTIFIED UMATILLA POLICE THAT THERE WERE TWO UNEXPLAINED TRANSACTIONS AT THIS BANK OF AMERICA ATM MACHINE TOTALING MORE THAN $1,400. >> SHE STOLE A CREDIT CARD FROM HER PARENTS AND USED IT FRAUDULENTLY. GREG: AND AT THAT POINT, YOUR DEPARTMENT AND HER PARENTS DIDN’T KNOW WHY SHE WANTED THE MONEY? >> NO, SIR. GREG: THAT LANDED HER CHARGES OF GRAND THEFT, FRAUD, PETIT THEFT. BUT MONDAY, A STUDENT TOLD AUTHORITIES SHE HEARD OF A DOUBLE MURDER PLOT. WHEN DEPUTIES QUESTIONED HATCHER, THEY WROTE IN THEIR REPORT, "THE DEFENDANT SAID SHE SPENT $100 ON COCAINE AND THEN GAVE $400 TO A FRIEND TO GIVE TO SOMEONE TO KILL HER PARENTS." WHEN THAT PLAN FAILED, DEPUTIES SAY SHE TOLD THEM SHE GAVE $900 TO SOMEONE ELSE TO KILL HER PARENTS. >> KIDS SAY "I HATE MY PARENTS" ALL THE TIME. THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. BUT TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE IT STARTS TO CIRCULATE IN YOUR HEAD THAT, I’M GOING TO STEAL A CARD, I’M GOING TO TAKE MONEY OUT OF THE ATM, AND I’M GOING TO TRY AND PAY FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO HAPPEN, THAT’S WHEN IT DOES CROSS THE LINE AND THAT’S WHEN IT IS A VERY, VERY SERIOUS CHARGE. GREG: AT THIS HOME IN UMATILLA, NEITHER HATCHER’S MOTHER NOR GRANDFATHER WOULD COMMENT ON THE CASE. DEPUTIES WANT TO STRESS IT WAS COURAGEOUS OF THAT STUDENT TO COME FORWARD AND TRUST THE INFORMATION WITH THE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER TO GET THE INVESTIGATION ROLLING SO THEY COULD T

A Florida teenager has been arrested after deputies said she stole money from her parents and then tried to hire two different people to kill them. Officials with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Alyssa Hatcher, 17, stole her parents' debit card and withdrew money that she then used to pay people she wanted to kill her parents. Deputies said the alleged murder-for-hire plot came to light after another teenager told a school resource officer the 17-year-old high school student had paid another friend "a lot of money" to kill her parents.Hatcher's boyfriend then-told investigators that he’d seen Hatcher Monday morning and she told him that she wanted to kill her parents. When investigators tracked down Hatcher, they say she admitted that she’d paid one person $400 to kill her parents and then gave another person $900 because the first person she paid did not carry the act out, an arrest affidavit said. Investigators said she'd stolen her parents' debit card and used $100 to buy cocaine before spending the rest on the alleged murder-for-hire plot. Deputies said Hatcher is being charged with two counts of criminal solicitation of murder.

UMATILLA, Fla. —

A Florida teenager has been arrested after deputies said she stole money from her parents and then tried to hire two different people to kill them.

Officials with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Alyssa Hatcher, 17, stole her parents' debit card and withdrew money that she then used to pay people she wanted to kill her parents.

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Deputies said the alleged murder-for-hire plot came to light after another teenager told a school resource officer the 17-year-old high school student had paid another friend "a lot of money" to kill her parents.

Hatcher's boyfriend then-told investigators that he’d seen Hatcher Monday morning and she told him that she wanted to kill her parents.

When investigators tracked down Hatcher, they say she admitted that she’d paid one person $400 to kill her parents and then gave another person $900 because the first person she paid did not carry the act out, an arrest affidavit said.

Investigators said she'd stolen her parents' debit card and used $100 to buy cocaine before spending the rest on the alleged murder-for-hire plot.

Deputies said Hatcher is being charged with two counts of criminal solicitation of murder.